Tag: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

Roadbuilding
Roadway Environmental Ratings: What’s Best for Your Agency?
There’s a choice of programs to use in rating sustainable roads.
November 12, 2012
Cold milling of aged asphalt produces reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), and is encouraged by various environmental sustainability rating systems
Construction Equipment
“Substantial” revision could come to LEED certification standards
The U.S. Green Building Council hopes that the revisions will remedy the problem of some LEED-certified buildings that, despite being built according to green, LEED standards, still don’t live up to their projected efficiency.
October 31, 2012
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Roadbuilding
Reporter
By Equipment World Staff Green Fleet Initiative Making sure your fleet meets one of these levels could mean the difference at bidding time. Burnishing your company’s environmental credentials or putting in place a program to reduce your fleet’s exhaust emissions just got easier with the Association of Equipment Management Professionals’ Green Fleet initiative. The beauty […]
May 30, 2011
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Business
Contractor of the Year Finalist
Chuck Laney Gatlinburg, Tennessee A family construction business that puts family first and has reaped the reward By Tom Jackson C. Laney and Sons Construction Year started: 1980 (Incorporated in 1999) Annual volume: ($14 to $15 million) Markets served: Residential and commercial construction, excavation and site utilities, metal buildings, spray insulation and construction management. The […]
March 2, 2011
Racing cars is the family hobby and the Laney’s have a fleet of four cars they carry in custom-built trailers. To help support the habit, they formed an equipment company that sells safety gear such as racing harnesses.
Maintenance
Maintenance
Building green LEED certified shop facilities can make your technicians and office personnel happier, healthier and more productive – and give you a professional edge on the competition. By Tom Jackson All too often shops and maintenance facilities are ill-lit and dingy; cold in winter, hot in summer. No wonder contractors complain that it’s hard […]
November 9, 2010
The sawtooth roof profile of this Central Platte maintenance facility orients solar panels at the optimum angle for sunlight and admits northern light into the shop bays for low cost illumination.
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